a 49 year old woman diagnosed as a cervical cancer patient, after receiving appropriate treatment experienced metastasis in her abdominopelvic cavity. after aggressive management, she was well for a while. however, she developed to a poor condition consisting of urologic, gastroenterological, hematologic and neurologic problems just in a short time. in the course of hospital she presented one s...

introduction malignant priapism due to cancers is a rare condition that only 30 cases of kidney cancers were reported. case presentation we report on the first case of simultaneous penile, renal vein, vena cava, liver and ipslateral adrenal gland metastases from primary renal cancer in a 56-year-old man. the only complain of the patient was a history of painful priapism for one month. corporogl...

although acrometastases are rare but clinically they are considered important. their etiology is quite different from the metastases to other sites; bronchogenic carcinoma is by far the most frequent case. the prognosis is always similar to metastatic bronchial cancer with an average survival of three months. treatment may involve distal digital amputation or antalgic radiotherapy. the main dif...

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background: the sentinel lymph node (sln) is defined as the first chain node in the lymphatic basin that receives primary lymphatic flow. if the sln is negative for metastatic disease, then other nodes are expected to be disease-free. sln techniques have been extensively applied in the staging and treatment of many tumors, including melanoma, breast and vulvar cancers. this study aims to evalua...

background: chemokine receptors have been shown to play an important role in the development and metastatic spread of various malignancies. in this study, the gene expression profile of some key chemokine receptors involved in metastasis has been investigated in esophageal and breast cancer cell lines.   methods: in a descriptive study, gene expression profile of ccr1, ccr6, ccr7, ccr9, cxcr1, ...

results based on the recent researches, certain mmps play critical role in breast cancer initiation, invasion, and metastasis. they can be regarded as predictive biomarkers of primary diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer and have predictive value for evaluation of disease, tumor recurrence, invading of tumor cells to other sites and therapeutic outcomes. conclusions in summary, the results ...

breast metastasis of ovarian carcinoma is rare. to date, only 39 cases have been reported in the english-language  literature  so  far.  we  are  herewith  reporting  a  primary  ovarian  papillary  serous  cyst adenocarcinoma metastasing to breast and epsilateral supraclavicular node in a 58 year old female asthe first case in our centre, located at north-east india.  the purpose of reporting ...

ba c k g r o u nd: skin  metastases occur  in  1-5%  of  solid  tumors  and  are  rarely the presenting sign of internal malignancies. certain features in skin lesions raise suspicion of metastasis from solid tumors. c a s e presentation: in this article a 61-year-old woman is presented with erythematous skin nodules  in  upper  abdomen  and  chest. histopathological evaluation  of  lesions sug...

abstract gastric cancer is one of the most common and most fatal neoplasms in human. its skeletal metastasis is less frequent, particularly when solitary. the objective of this article is to represent a case of solitary fibular metastasis from this cancer not reported before based on medline search.